ALL THE BEER I DRANK IN A YEAR

Beer is famous in our time. Everyone wants it and yet nobody can hold down more than half a dozen pints of it. Due to this challenge beer is widely abused, and many of our matings are its result. In the following list are the beers — bottled and canned — which I drunk at home, and in the homes of others, over the course of one year.

Appropriately enough, this is a golden age of bottled and canned beer. Storage of beer in domestic casks, butts and hogsgeads would of course be absurd and impractical, involving work on the part of the consumer. To ease this burden, beer is therefore filtered and charged with carbonic acid gas — and squashed into handy bottles and cans. The product is inferior to properly matured and naturally conditioned beer, but nonetheless serves a cheap and potent public service.